bottom

A customizable cross-platform graphical process/system monitor for the terminal.
Supports Linux, macOS, and Windows. Inspired by gtop, gotop, and htop.

[CI status](https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom/actions?query=branch%3Amaster) [crates.io link](https://crates.io/crates/bottom) [Stable documentation](https://clementtsang.github.io/bottom/stable) [Nightly documentation](https://clementtsang.github.io/bottom/nightly)
Quick demo recording showing off bottom's searching, expanding, and process killing.

Demo using the Gruvbox theme (--color gruvbox), along with IBM Plex Mono and Kitty

Table of contents

Features

As (yet another) process/system visualization and management application, bottom supports the typical features:

You can find more details in the documentation.

Support

Official

bottom officially supports the following operating systems and corresponding architectures:

These platforms are tested to work for the most part and issues on these platforms will be fixed if possible. Furthermore, binaries are expected to be built and tested using the most recent version of stable Rust at the time.

For more details on supported platforms and known problems, check out the documentation.

Unofficial

bottom may work on a number of platforms that aren't officially supported. Note that unsupported platforms:

Note that some unsupported platforms may eventually be officially supported (e.g., FreeBSD).

A non-comprehensive list of some currently unofficially supported platforms that may compile/work include:

For more details on unsupported platforms and known problems, check out the documentation.

Installation

Cargo

Installation via cargo can be done by installing the bottom crate:

```bash

If required, update Rust to the stable channel first:

rustup update stable

Install

cargo install bottom --locked

If you use another channel by default, you can specify

the stable channel like so:

cargo +stable install bottom --locked

--locked may be omitted if you wish to not use the

locked crate versions in Cargo.lock. However, be

aware that this may cause problems with dependencies.

cargo install bottom ```

Arch Linux

bottom is available as an official package that can be installed with pacman:

bash sudo pacman -S bottom

Debian / Ubuntu

A .deb file is provided on each stable release and nightly builds for x86, aarch64, and armv7 (note stable ARM builds are only available for 0.6.8 and later). An example of installing this way:

```bash

x86-64

curl -LO https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom/releases/download/0.9.6/bottom0.9.6amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i bottom0.9.6amd64.deb

ARM64

curl -LO https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom/releases/download/0.9.6/bottom0.9.6arm64.deb sudo dpkg -i bottom0.9.6arm64.deb

ARM

curl -LO https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom/releases/download/0.9.6/bottom0.9.6armhf.deb sudo dpkg -i bottom0.9.6armhf.deb ```

Snap

bottom is available as a snap:

```bash sudo snap install bottom

To allow the program to run as intended

sudo snap connect bottom:mount-observe sudo snap connect bottom:hardware-observe sudo snap connect bottom:system-observe sudo snap connect bottom:process-control ```

Fedora / CentOS / AlmaLinux / Rocky Linux

bottom is available in COPR:

bash sudo dnf copr enable atim/bottom -y sudo dnf install bottom

.rpm files are also generated (starting from 0.9.3) for x86. If you wish to install this way, then you can do something like:

```bash

x86-64

curl -LO https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom/releases/download/0.9.6/bottom-0.9.6-1.x8664.rpm sudo rpm -i bottom-0.9.6-1.x8664.rpm

Nightly x86-64

curl -LO https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom/releases/download/nightly/bottom-0.9.6-1.x8664.rpm sudo rpm -i bottom-0.9.6-1.x8664.rpm ```

Gentoo

Available in the official Gentoo repo:

bash sudo emerge --ask sys-process/bottom

Nix

Available in the nix-community repo:

bash nix-env -i bottom

Solus

Available in the Solus repos:

bash sudo eopkg it bottom

Void

Available in the void-packages repo:

bash sudo xbps-install bottom

Homebrew

Formula available here:

bash brew install bottom

MacPorts

Available here:

bash sudo port selfupdate sudo port install bottom

Scoop

Available in the Main bucket:

bash scoop install bottom

Chocolatey

Chocolatey packages are located here:

bash choco install bottom

winget

The winget package can be found here:

```bash winget install bottom

If you need a more specific app id:

winget install Clement.bottom ```

You can uninstall via Control Panel, Options, or winget --uninstall bottom.

Windows installer

You can also manually install bottom as a Windows program by going to the latest release and installing via the .msi file.

Manual installation

There are a few ways to go about doing this manually. Note that you probably want to do so using the most recent version of stable Rust, which is how the binaries are built:

```bash

If required, update Rust on the stable channel first

rustup update stable

Option 1 - Download from releases and install

curl -LO https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom/archive/0.9.6.tar.gz tar -xzvf 0.9.6.tar.gz cargo install --path . --locked

Option 2 - Clone from master and install manually

git clone https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom cd bottom cargo install --path . --locked

Option 3 - Clone and install directly from the repo all via Cargo

cargo install --git https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom --locked

You can also pass in the target-cpu=native flag for

better CPU-specific optimizations. For example:

RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=native" cargo install --path . --locked ```

Binaries

You can also use the pre-built release binaries manually:

To use, download and extract the binary that matches your system. You can then run by doing:

bash ./btm

or by installing to your system following whatever the procedure is for installing a binary to your system.

Auto-completion

The release binaries are packaged with shell auto-completion files for bash, fish, zsh, and Powershell. To install them:

The individual auto-completion files are also included in the stable/nightly releases as completion.tar.gz.

Usage

You can run bottom using btm.

You can find more information on usage in the documentation.

Configuration

bottom accepts a number of command-line arguments to change the behaviour of the application as desired. Additionally, bottom will automatically generate a configuration file on the first launch, which one can change as appropriate.

More details on configuration can be found in the documentation.

Troubleshooting

If some things aren't working, give the troubleshooting page a look. If things still aren't working, then consider opening a question or filing a bug report.

Contribution

Whether it's reporting bugs, suggesting features, maintaining packages, or submitting a PR, contribution is always welcome! Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on how to contribute to bottom.

Contributors

Thanks to all contributors:

Marcin Wojnarowski
Marcin Wojnarowski

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Mahmoud Al-Qudsi
Mahmoud Al-Qudsi

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Andy
Andy

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Kim Brose
Kim Brose

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Sven-Hendrik Haase
Sven-Hendrik Haase

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Artem Polishchuk
Artem Polishchuk

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Trung Lê
Trung Lê

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dm9pZCAq
dm9pZCAq

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Lukas Rysavy
Lukas Rysavy

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Erlend Hamberg
Erlend Hamberg

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Frederick Zhang
Frederick Zhang

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pvanheus
pvanheus

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Zeb Piasecki
Zeb Piasecki

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Brian Di Palma
Brian Di Palma

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Lasha Kanteladze
Lasha Kanteladze

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Herby Gillot
Herby Gillot

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Greg Brown
Greg Brown

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TotalCaesar659
TotalCaesar659

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George Rawlinson
George Rawlinson

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adiabatic
adiabatic

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Randy Barlow
Randy Barlow

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Patrick Jackson
Patrick Jackson

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Mateusz Mikuła
Mateusz Mikuła

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Guillaume Gomez
Guillaume Gomez

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shura
shura

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Wesley Moore
Wesley Moore

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xgdgsc

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ViridiCanis
ViridiCanis

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Justin Martin
Justin Martin

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Diana
Diana

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Hervy Qurrotul Ainur Rozi
Hervy Qurrotul Ainur Rozi

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Mike Rivnak
Mike Rivnak

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lroobrou
lroobrou

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database64128

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Chon Sou
Chon Sou

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DrSheppard
DrSheppard

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RareÈ™ Constantin

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felipesuri
felipesuri

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spital

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Michael Bikovitsky
Michael Bikovitsky

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Dmitry Valter
Dmitry Valter

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Twan Stok
Twan Stok

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Yuxuan Shui
Yuxuan Shui

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Wenqing Zong
Wenqing Zong

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Gabriele Belluardo
Gabriele Belluardo

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Zeb Piasecki
Zeb Piasecki

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